Phylica rogersii

Papaver spp. (Papaveraceae) cnc 24,475 89 Phoebe spp. (Lauraceae) jca 667,322 94 Phylica rogersii (Rhamnaceae) 11yd 33s, 1 70 Polyalthia nitidissima (Annonaceae) pm 49,20 83 Sassafras albidum (Lauraceae) 11yd 39,473a 76 Thalictrum pedunculatum (Ranunculaceae) izk 21, 246 88 Xylopia frutescens (Annonaceae) pmp 16,253 82 Xylopia papuana (Annonaceae) npl 6,57 95... 

The crystalline alkaloid rogersine, C2oH23N04- CH30H (mp 100°-105°, sintering at 85° [a]u +111° in ethanol methiodide, mp 199°-200°), was obtained as one of the minor alkaloids of Phylica rogersii Pillans (Rhamnaceae). Spectral and analytical data indicated a 1,2,9,10-tetrasubstituted aporphine with three methoxyls and one hydroxyl, and by a process of comparison and elimination expression XXXIV was suggested for the alkaloid (23). 

Phylica rogersii (Rhamnaceae). In the opium poppy, Pa-paver somniferum, both enantiomers of reticuline occur with the (+ )-enantiomer predominating. Morphine alkaloids are derived from (- )-reticuline (21). 

L-( + )-i T-Methylcoclaurine, C19H23NO3 (XIII), has been isolated from Cocculus laurifolius DC. (Menispermaceae) and named coclanoline (33) (vide infra). D-( — )-iV -Methylcoclaurine was isolated from Phylica rogersii Pillans (Rhamnaceae) (34). Both enantiomers have been obtained in many cases by reductive cleavage with sodium in liquid ammonia of bisbenzylisoquinoline alkaloids (11, 12). 

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